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Black-and-White Panda Clash Update
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 19, 2008
Modified Aug 19, 2008
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Free Williamsburg posted this photograph of some cops restraining someone during Saturday night's Pandamonium. There's also some video of the confrontation and one witness account that questions the force used by the NYPD, "Then a cop grabbed the guy with the boom box by the back of his arm and yanked him into the street, pushing him to the ground and making him [lose] grip of the stereo...The stereo fell, batteries flying everywhere, and when a few of his friends picked it up, a woman cop angrily lunged for the boom box and tried to further dismantle it!" And the folks behind the roving party are "looking 4 footage of arrests 2 help lawyers. Up the pandas f*ck the nypd!"
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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